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 to appreciate these works; for Mons. Guizot writes thus : 'I am a great novel reader, but I seldom read German or French novels. The characters are too artificial. My delight is to read English novels, par- ticularly those written by women. "C'est toute une école de morale." Miss Austen, Miss Ferrier, &c., form a school which in the excellence and profusion of its productions resembles the cloud of dramatic poets of the great Athenian age.'

In the 'Keepsake' of 1825 the following lines appeared, written by Lord Morpeth, afterwards seventh Earl of Carlisle, and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, accompanying an illustration of a lady reading a novel.

The admiration felt by Lord Macaulay would probably have taken a very practical form, if his life